A new chemical trick keeps bioluminescent sea organisms shining for 25 minutes straight, opening the door to living light ...

Under the warm waters off Tanzania's Mafia Island, marine scientist Asha Mgeni hovers above a coral reef she has studied for years. Small fish dart through the currents. To most divers, the reef ...

Researchers in the UK have shown how the distributions of two phytoplankton groups—known to produce natural toxins that can ...

This tiny sea slug looks cute, but its biology is almost impossible to believe. Some species steal chloroplasts from algae, ...

Being able to multiply the species in a lab revealed information about its hunting technique and bioluminescence and opened ...

Learn how to keep your bird bath algae-free all season with easy maintenance tips, smart placement ideas, and the ...

Advances in imaging techniques reportedly debunks a purported "animal" fossil from long before the Cambrian explosion.

The Center for Biological Diversity has reached an agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that requires the agency ...

As sargassum piles up on Florida beaches, researchers are exploring how the smelly seaweed could be used in food and medicine ...

Thanks to fate, luck or instinct, an Australian marine scientist made a “rarest of the rare” find. A quarter-century later it ...

Researchers created a special kind of algae that can grab microscopic plastic pollution out of water almost like a magnet.

Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early ...